Tag Archives: 2013

A lightning strike has set off a fire on Promontory Peninsula between the south and southeast arms of Yellowstone Lake.

Yellowstone National Park continues to be a huge draw on the tourism front, as numbers released by the National Park Service show over 2.7 million people visited America’s Oldest National Park so far this year.

Yellowstone National Park has released its bison population estimates for 2014.

According to a report from the National Park Service, Yellowstone tourism has wide ranging and positive economic benefits.

Yellowstone visitation in June was markedly up from last year, according to new numbers from the Park Service.

Yellowstone visitation is up thus far in 2014.

With the current government shutdown in its second day, Congressional observers say it could be a matter of weeks before a resolution is in sight — which would close down Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks for the rest of the current season.

Yellowstone National Park visitation is over 2.5 million for 2013, with the vast majority of those visits — over 2.1 million — coming in June, July and August.

Yellowstone National Park visitation for 2013, thus far, is higher than measured park visitation in 2012.

Though there’s still plenty of snow on the ground, Yellowstone National Park is open for business today, with the West and North Entrances providing access to the Old Faithful area.